A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against an unidentified man for sexually abusing a minor girl as she played outside her home in Kasur on July 25.

 

The FIR on July 26 came hours after a video of the incident surfaced online. The video showed two minors, a girl and a boy, playing in the street when a man approached them and forcibly kissed the minor girl on her face.

 

The video also showed the girl resisting the man and later rushing to her house out of fear.

 

“When we came to the door after hearing her scream, we saw an unidentified person running away. He disappeared while we chased him,” the girl’s uncle stated in the FIR, adding that all this happened as the girl and her brother played outside their house on tricycles.

 

He further said that when he asked the girl about the incident, she told him that the unidentified man, while grabbing her, did “something to her face”.

 

“When we checked the CCTV footage, it was clearly seen that the unidentified man kissed the girl,” the complainant stated in the FIR.

 

It merits a mention that the incident is not the first of its kind as a significant spike in cases of child sexual abuse has been reported over the past several months.

 

Earlier, a local court in Bahawalpur handed down a sentence of 20 years rigorous imprisonment and a one million rupees fine to a madrassa teacher for the attempted rape of a 10-year-old girl student.

 

The victim also told her father that the teacher had been abusing her sexually for some time.

 

The father then registered an FIR against the teacher under section 377-B which pertains to offence of sexual abuse in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). The accused was then arrested.

 

The court ordered that in case of default on payment of the fine, the convict will have to under-go an additional imprisonment of six months.